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"An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned he allegedly authored two books containing questionable content under a pseudonym.
Local network WBOC News reports that the investigation concerns two books published by McLaw under the nom de plume “Dr. K.S. Voltaer,” and one is about a fictional, futuristic school shooting that goes down in history as being the largest ever in the United States.
http://rt.com/usa/182964-teacher-leave-shooting-book/"
This is lunacy. School administrators are terrified there will be another Columbine or Sandy Hook and are overreacting, or are they. What could they do to prevent one. Nothing, nil, zero. No need to ask yourself 'why', say thank you to the traitorous NRA , the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry, for blocking any form of gun control. They have successfully infected the country with The American Disease™ almost unfettered access to weapons of war that kill with brutal efficiency. Sadly there appears to be no cure.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceding paragraph was not up to our standards. The comments to this story are spot on. You expect better than this and we let you down. There are so many comments referring to this paragraph, we cannot just delete it, hence the strike-through. More to follow.]
(Score: 1) by pnkwarhall on Saturday August 30 2014, @09:26PM
I appreciate your explanation of the significance of the quote for you. That's the nice thing about quotes -- they can mean many things to many people simultaneously.
As for the significance to me:
I feel there's a prevalent view that the Internet is a force "for good", for the evolution and development of humanity (especially in tech circles). How does that work exactly, if the majority of the content on the web is porn, marketing garbage, and better-and-better disguised propaganda/social engineering efforts?
Soylent was created as a reaction to to the slide of /. into... well, what it's become, which includes a glut of article summaries written as blatant propaganda (and selection of the articles themselves). (I hope that) The outcry against this article's summary displays the intent of the Soylent community to maintain a certain standard for the discussion on the site -- which could be considered (like any website) a microcosm of the 'net at large. I believe sincerely that "garbage in == garbage out", which is why this discussion about the summary is important. But as a general comment on the Internet -- if we fill the Internet with garbage (i.e. "the wrong figures"), the right answers for humanity will not come out.
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